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Christ-Centered Ministries

CHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES provides interim housing and support programs to help individuals in recovery transition into mainstream society.

$688k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$213k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$765kHousing & Shelter$282kReligion$220kYouth Development$210kEmployment$197kEducation$189kCommunity Improvement$180kHealth$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $641k
$87,191
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PCS FAMILY SERVICES$213,247
GUARDIANS OF LOVE$191,362
CENTER FOR LIVING & LEARNING$87,191
FIVE KEYS SCHOOL & PROGRAMS$79,346
REIGNITE HOPE$70,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$42,173
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STAR VIEW CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%BROOM HOMESTEAD INC: $10k → 14%BREASTFEEDING TASK FORCE OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%HEALING URBAN BARRIOS: $10k → 14%INTEGRATED RECOVERY NETWORK: $10k → 14%ADOS FREEDMAN'S BUREAU OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%SOUTH BUREAU MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%WOMEN OF WATTS AND BEYOND: $10k → 14%INGLEWOOD WRAPPING ARMS AROUND THE COMMUNITY IWATC: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR HEALTH JUSTICE INC: $10k → 14%A HELPING HAND IN RECOVERY INC: $10k → 14%GUARDIANS OF LOVE: $191k → 14%TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $10k → 14%BLACK OWNED AND OPERATED COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10k → 14%CANNON HOUSE: $10k → 14%GUARDIANS OF LOVE: $10k → 14%SANCTUARY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%211 LA: $10k → 14%PCS FAMILY SERVICES: $213k → 14%AVENUES SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES: $10k → 14%PCS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%INSTITUTO DE AVANCE INTEGRAL LATINO CDC: $10k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%CONAXION INC: $10k → 14%249G ACRES: $10k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UCA - UP & COMING ACTORS: $10k → 14%MOTIVATIONAL RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%SSGHOPICS: $10k → 14%UNIQUE WOMAN'S COALITION: $10k → 14%MOON REFUGE INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%THE KENNEDY AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%URBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%STEWARDS VILLAGE OF COLLABORATION INC: $10k → 14%THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $10k → 14%THE CITY LIGHTS GATEWAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNITED EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CYNTHIA PERRY RAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SUSTAINABLE FUTURES PROJECT: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$477k · 3 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
186

Total granted

$477k
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PF
    PCS FAMILY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $223k · revenue +21%
  • GO
    GUARDIAN'S OF LOVE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $201k · revenue -3%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +111%
  • LV
    LA VOICEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • TH
    THE HURT HELP GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
2
The Miracle House Foundation

Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration

Human Services
3
Black Los Angeles County Client Coalition Inc

Mental health services advocacy

Human Services
4
Western Avenue Community Action Inc

Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.

Community Improvement
5
Project Lift La

Provider of human services

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6
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
7
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
8
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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9
Champions in Service San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles

Provide counseling, gang prevention and intervention services, case management, athletic activities, job readiness training and development and other services to disadvantaged youth in the san fernando valley and greater los angeles area.

Crime & Legal
10
Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…

—
11
The Relational Center
Philanthropy
12
Positive Outlook Housing Corp

General upkeep of facility for housing

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Drug Abuse Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Revelation Enterprise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 149 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
64
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/149
Grantees still filing
102/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PCS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $223,247 · Human ServicesPCS FAMILY SERVICES INCGUARDIAN'S OF LOVE: $201,362 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN'S OF LOVE+39 more: $390,000 · Human Services+39 moreCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $87,191 · OtherCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING+91 more: $920,000 · Other+91 moreFIVE KEYS SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS: $79,346 · EducationFIVE KEYS …Reignite Hope: $70,000 · EducationReignite H…Friends of Atwater Elementary: $10,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS: $10,000 · EducationCoalition for Engaged Education: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · EducationFriends of Glenfeliz Elementary: $10,000 · EducationWALK N ROLLERS: $10,000 · EducationCOLLECTIVE REMAKE ART BUSINESS EDUCATION JOBS NEWS PEOPLE AND REC: $10,000 · EducationWILLIAM S HART EDUCATION FOUNDATION WISH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOV Olive Branches CDC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAROUSEL RANCH INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentRESILIENT AGENCY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA CLARITA VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD SURVANTS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOU RUN THIS TOWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBMT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSISTERS OF WATTS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIOR SUNSET: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Club of Los Angeles: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUJOHN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT JOY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementLA VOICE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFEEDSCV INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHope Community Development Center Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMacedonia Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGOLDEN PATH: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY REFLECTIONS INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE REVERENCE PROJECT: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSTREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWillowbrook Inclusion Network: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $52,173 · Housing & ShelterPaving The Way Foundation: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRestoration Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterConnections For Women Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLOVE HOME INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterA STEP TO FREEDOM: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT NEW LIFE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPOSITIVE RESULTS CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTIMELIST GROUP INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalRONNIES HOUSE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalON MY GRIND REENTRY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHOMIES UNIDOS INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSTARFISH STORIES INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalPRISON FROM-THEINSIDE-OUT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalREEVOLUTION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalADVOCATES FOR PEACE AND URBAN UNITY: $10,000 · Crime & LegalRESCUE-A-LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMASS LIBERATION: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$814,609Other$1,007,191Education$249,346Youth Development$150,000Community Improvement$140,000Housing & Shelter$132,173Crime & Legal$130,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPCS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $223,247 over 2y, 15% of budgetGUARDIAN'S OF LOVE: $201,362 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCENTER FOR LIVING AND LEARNING: $87,191 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFIVE KEYS SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS: $79,346 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReignite Hope: $70,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA VOICE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTEGRATED RECOVERY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDOING MORE THAN YESTERDAY SUPPORT: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetIF I NEED HELP: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCynthia Perry Ray Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPOSITIVE IMAGERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetROAD TO ARTDOM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT RETURN PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW EARTH ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPOSITIVE RESULTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTIMELIST GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAWOKE: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetYoung Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA-MAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetADOS FREEDMANS BUREAU OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetRONNIES HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPaving The Way Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALING URBAN BARRIOS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINGLEWOOD WRAPPING: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMY FRIENDS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFEEDSCV INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROUSEL RANCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHope Community Development Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetENRICH LA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMAZING GRACE CONSERVATORY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRESILIENT AGENCY: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMacedonia Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetRestoration Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetURBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Rightway Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTAR VIEW CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlcott Center for Mental Health Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way IncWeingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Liberty Hill Foundati…Social Justice Partne…Shelter Partnership I…The Ralph M Parsons F…Community PartnersLos Angeles Regional …Southern California G…The Rose Hills Founda…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
United Way IncCA65× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Inc · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Social Justice Partners Los Angeles · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Community Partners · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Southern California Grantmakers · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christ-Centered Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christ-Centered Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Christ-Centered Ministries?

    Find your warmest path to Christ-Centered Ministries through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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